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tincture

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tincture /ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə/

▶noun

1 a medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol.

2 a slight trace.

3 Heraldry any of the conventional colours used in coats of arms.

▶verb (be tinctured) be tinged or imbued with a slight trace: his affability was tinctured with slight sarcasm.

– origin ME (denoting a dye or pigment): from L. tinctura ‘dyeing’, from tingere ‘to dye or colour’.

'tincture' also found in these Oxford entries:

armed - ermine - gules - langued - or - potent - purpure - vert

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